It's a chinese wedding

Last Saturday I got invited to a Chinese wedding, thanks to my roommate. Of course, I accomplished my blog duty by taking pictures and investigating Chinese traditions.

First of all, let me describe you how it went. So, for starters, the host that animates the wedding makes some kind of very long speech (in Chinese of course!) and then there is a very cheesy music introducing mamababa, the parents. After that, they put on an even cheesier music introducing the bride and the groom. They come in, and then the ceremony starts. It’s fairly weird because it looks like a church ceremony, except we are not at all in a church. So to me it looked kind of fake, even though it was beautiful to see two people commit to each other like that.

It took place in a reception room decorated in white and red. You have to know that red is a very important color in Chinese culture. It means happiness. This is why there is a lot of red at weddings, and also why all the guests should wear something red. For example, I wore red lipstick and my roommate wore red earrings.

Another tradition is that the bride changes dress right after the ceremony. Supposedly, the first one has to be white, and the second one has to be red. However, this bride put two white dresses (don’t ask me why, even Chinese people didn’t know).

Ok so this was for the ceremony part, but as my roommate summed it up very well, “a Chinese wedding is all about food”. Let me tell you, I thought I would have to roll over back home after this wedding. We had no less than six main courses. Oh, and what my roommate forgot to mention is that it’s also about drinking. A lot of alcohol at Chinese weddings apparently, but actually this is the same everywhere, only the strong alcohol type changes :).

Oh and a last funny fact, at the end there was a cake, but Chinese people are so not used to eating this kind of food that they put it with the other salty courses. We had to eat it with the same chopsticks in the same plate (look at the photo of the cake, and then picture me trying to eat it with chopsticks).

To conclude, I was glad I got to experience a new side of Chinese culture, and to make a conclusion as corny as this wedding was, the traditions might change, but beauty of committing for life remains the same (I know, I know).